Hillary Clinton rips Clarence Thomas: 'He's been a man or woman of grievance’

Ryan King

June 28, 10:21 AM June 28, 10:21 AM

Hillary Clinton got personalized with her disparagement of Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday, sniping that her previous legislation college classmate was normally a man of "resentment, grievance, [and] anger."

Recalling her time in regulation college with him, she cautioned that he has been encouraging conservative activists and point out legislatures to ship cases his way so that he could use them to challenge other precedents, such as the proper to similar-intercourse relationship and the right to contraception.

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"I went to law college with him. He's been a person of grievance for as prolonged as I have recognised him. [He has] resentment, grievance, [and] anger, and he has signaled in the earlier, to decrease courts, to condition legislatures, 'Find instances. Go laws. Get them up [to the Supreme Court]," Clinton advised CBS Mornings.

"And the issue that is, perfectly, you will find so lots of issues about it that are deeply distressing. But girls are likely to die, Gayle. Women of all ages will die," she added.

Clinton, who could have appointed justices experienced she won the presidency in 2016, stated she was not amazed by the ruling, swiping at senators this kind of as Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), who claimed they had been misled into voting for justices who have because voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, by incorporating, "Anybody who is stunned by this is not spending interest."

"I assume they were misled, in aspect simply because they desired to be misled. ... They either understood or they had been blind to what is actually the history of the individuals prior to them," Clinton described.

She cautioned that the high court is poised to "convert back the clock on civil legal rights and homosexual rights."

Thomas termed for the court docket to reconsider substantive because of approach circumstances, including all those that guaranteed rights to exact-sexual intercourse relationship and contraception, in his concurrence in Friday's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Wellness Group ruling. Notably, as the most senior justice in the vast majority, he was capable to decide on the author of the Dobbs opinion, major to speculation that he did not generate the feeling himself since he does not have the votes to nix those people precedents.

Clinton prompt that Thomas may possibly not have the desired guidance now, but he will proceed striving to whip votes to overturn these other authorized precedents.

"Very well, he could be on his have, but he is signaling as he often did," Clinton replied. "He has signaled in the earlier to reduce courts, to point out legislatures, 'Find situations. Move laws. Get them up. I could not earn the initially, the 2nd, or the third time, but we're going to maintain at it.'"